Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific Vol 1

<p>This volume covers the language situation in Fiji The Philippines and Vanuatu explaining the linguistic diversity the historical and political contexts and the current language situation including language-in-education planning the role of the media the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language planning context. Fiji and Vanuatu are not well represented in the international language policy/planning literature while the section on the Philippines draws together the published literature in this area. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities that are not well-known to researchers in the field. A longer range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world.</p>